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By David R. Montgomery
How the secret of the Bible's maximum tale formed geology: a MacArthur Fellow provides a shocking viewpoint on Noah's Flood.
In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard an area tale a few nice flood that bore a impressive similarity to Noah's Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery begun investigating the world's flood tales and, drawing from ancient works via theologians, ordinary philosophers, and scientists, chanced on the counter-intuitive function Noah's Flood performed within the improvement of either geology and creationism. Steno, the grandfather of geology, even invoked the Flood in laying geology's founding ideas in line with his observations of northern Italian landscapes.
Centuries later, the founders of contemporary creationism established their irrational view of an international flood on a perceptive critique of geology. With an explorer's eye and a fresh method of either religion and technology, Montgomery takes readers on a trip throughout landscapes and cultures.
In the method we find the illusive nature of fact, even if seen throughout the lens of technological know-how or faith, and the way it replaced via historical past and keeps altering, even today.
Literary Awards
Washington nation e-book Award for History/General Nonfiction (2013)
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This is what one would expect when the cation sites of the calcite structure are partially occupied by magnesium instead of calcium, given the fact that the lattice dimensions of dolomite and magnesite are smaller than those of calcite. Correlations of chemically determined magnesium contents and measured X-ray spacings have shown that the lattice dimensions of magnesian calcites vary with the molecular percentage of magnesium in an essentially linear fashion and thus follow VEGARD'S rule. The relation between composition and the hexagonal a and c dimensions is illustrated in Figs.
The rotation of the C0 3 is of smaller extent than in Fig. 11, but it may be noted that the break in a given lattice row is greater than there. Therefore, this type of pressure twinning does not occur in calcite where the stable configuration is attained at smaller displacements parallel to the twin boundary. - Figs. 11 and 12 are from BRADLEY, BURST and GRAF (1953) (reprinted with permission from The American Mineralogist) whose paper may be consulted for more details the presence of two different cations segregated in alternating layers.
The role of huntite is thus not limited to being an alteration product. According to KINSMAN it may be regarded as a precursor of dolomite and so is of more general petrological importance. Table 10. 642 . 67 2 So far, huntite has been found exclusively as polycristalline masses of submicroscopic grain size. In the absence of suitable single crystals, GRAF and BRADLEY (1962) have analyzed the structure on the basis of the X-ray powder pattern. = 102° 56'. 821 A. Chex is about halved with regard to the Chex values known for the simple rhombohedral carbonates, and ahex is doubled.